One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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